This is the Year Of The Garden at Bedlam Farm, the farmhouse and the yards are now ringed with gardens, some of them thick and proud, all of them thriving. Today, we planted the bulbs in our expanded Dahlia garden. Tomorrow, a small now garden by the side of the farmhouse, to complete the encirclement of the farmhouse with a circle of beauty and color and light. Hot work today, it was nearly 90 and sticky.

Maria did the heavy work, I watered and encouraged and photographed and drove to the hardware store. And mow, I am worn to the bone from mowing in this hot sun. More later.